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end

See also: END, End, -end, end-, and энд

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Etymology

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From Middle English ende, from Old English ende, from Proto-West Germanic *andī, from Proto-Germanic *andijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos, from *h₂ent- (“front, forehead”).

See also Dutch einde, German Ende, Norwegian ende, Swedish ände; also Old Irish ét (“end, point”), Latin antiae (“forelock”), Albanian anë (“side”), Ancient Greek ἀντίος (antíos, “opposite”), Sanskrit अन्त्य (antya, “last”). More at and and anti-.

The verb is from Middle English enden, endien, from Old English endian (“to end, to make an end of, complete, finish, abolish, destroy, come to an end, die”), from Proto-Germanic *andijōną (“to finish, end”), denominative from *andijaz.

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end (plural ends)

  1. The terminal point of something in space or time.
    • 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
      they followed him... into a sort of a central hall; out of which they could dimly see other long tunnel-like passages branching, passages mysterious and without apparent end.
    • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
      I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.
    At the end of the road, turn left.
    At the end of the story, the main characters fall in love.
  2. (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
    Is there no end to this madness?
  3. (by extension) Death.
    He met a terrible end in the jungle.
    I hope the end comes quickly.
  4. The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
    Hold the string at both ends.
    My father always sat at the end of the table nearest the kitchen.
  5. Result.
    • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
      O that a man might know / The end of this day's business ere it come!
    • 1876, Great Britain. Public Record Office, John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, James Gairdner, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII (volume 4, issue 3, part 2, page 3154)
      The end was that he was thought an archfool.
  7. A purpose, goal, or aim.
    For what end should I toil?
    The end of our club is to advance conversation and friendship.
    Synonym: purpose
    • 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, →OCLC, Act III:
      But, losing her, the End of Living lose.
    • 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character, Aphorism VI, page 146:
      When every man is his own end, all things will come to a bad end.
    • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.21:
      There is a long argument to prove that foreign conquest is not the end of the State, showing that many people took the imperialist view.
  8. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
    The Pavillion End
  9. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
  10. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
  11. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
  12. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
    odds and ends
  13. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
  14. (in the plural, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money.
    Don't give them your ends. You jack that shit!

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A component in place names

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Adjectives often used with "end"

final, ultimate, deep, happy, etc.

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  • → Japanese: エンド

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Verb

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end (third-person singular simple present ends, present participle ending, simple past and past participle ended)

  1. (intransitive, ergative) To come to an end.
    Is this movie never going to end?
    The lesson will end when the bell rings.
  2. (intransitive) To conclude; to bring something to an end.
    The orchestra ended with a performance of Dvořák.
  3. (transitive) To finish, terminate.
    The referee blew the whistle to end the game.

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References

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  1. ^ Bingham, Caleb (1808) “Improprieties in Pronunciation, common among the people of New-England”, in The Child's Companion; Being a Conciſe Spelling-book […] ‎[1], 12th edition, Boston: Manning & Loring, →OCLC, page 75.

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Albanian

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Albanian *antis/t, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂n̥t-jes/t (“to plait, weave”).[1]

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end (aorist enda, participle endur)

  1. (transitive) to weave
    Synonyms: vej, vegjoj
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Etymology 2

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Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂endʰ-. probably from Ancient Greek ἄνθος (ánthos), or from Proto-Albanian *anda[2]

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end (aorist enda, participle endur)

  1. (intransitive) to bloom, blossom
  2. (transitive) to flyblow
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  1. ^ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎[2] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 166
  2. ^ Orel, Vladimir. (1998). Albanian Etymological Dictionary.p 62

Danish

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse en, earlier an, probably from Proto-Germanic *þan (“then”), like English than, German denn (“than, for”). For the loss of þ-, compare Old Norse at (“that”) from Proto-Germanic *þat (“that”).

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end

  1. than (in comparisons)
    Han er venligere end hende.
    He is friendlier than her.
    Han er venligere end hun er.
    He is friendlier than she is.

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From Old Norse enn, from Proto-Germanic *andi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entí.

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end

  1. still (archaic)
    Thi end bestandig gælder de gamle, gyldne ord.
    For the old, golden words are still continually valid.
  2. (with interrogatives) no matter, ever
    Hvor man end er, kan man føle sig alene.
    Wherever you are, you may feel alone.
  3. even (in the modern language only in the combination end ikke "not even")
    End ikke statsministeren kan nå alt.
    Not even the primeminister can get everything done.

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end

  1. imperative of ende

Dutch

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch ende (“end”) with apocope of the final -e.

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end n (plural enden, diminutive endje n)

  1. (colloquial) Alternative form of eind
    De winkel is daar aan 't end van de weg. ― The shop is there at the end of the road.
    't Is nog een een end vanaf hier. ― There is still a considerable distance to travel from here.

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Estonian

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end

  1. partitive singular of ise

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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From Old English ende.

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end

  1. Alternative form of ende

Etymology 2

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From Old English endian.

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end

  1. Alternative form of enden

Norwegian Bokmål

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end

  1. imperative of ende

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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end

  1. imperative of enda

Old English

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end

  1. Alternative form of and

Vilamovian

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Etymology

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From Middle High German ende, from Old High German enti.

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end n

  1. end

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